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...From the standpoint of the many young, active instructors and professors on the Jeff campus this discipline and control over the academic life of the student represents Amherst's greatest single attribute and attraction to them. With such a community tough, radical courses, which would never be selected by the students in a free elective college, can be required of an entire class. As instructors candidly admit, they have a captive audience...
This weekend's games should give a solid indication. Middlebury, although no pushover, will probably be no serious threat, and the B.L.C. has already dropped two practice games to the Crimson. Hence the games will be most interesting from the standpoint of the team's midfield performance,and if they live up to expectations, the team will be in contention for the title again...
...good one. By extending mass tax relief and not making adequate provisions to shift the burden elsewhere, it would have left the government too short on funds for effective operation without sharply increasing the national debt. But direct consumer relief is a sound tax approach, both from the standpoint of bolstering a faltering economy, and maximizing social benefits. If taxes must be cut, a program based on increased exemptions is far more satisfactory than the Administration's new bill...
...Republican leaders to suggest that all Democrats ... are tinged with treason or that they are all security risks."* Replied Ike: He has seen no such statements, but if any such statements were made, he would consider it not only completely untrue but very unwise-even from a political partisan standpoint. Later, in answer to another question, he added that he believed that the ordinary American was capable of deciding what was temperate and just...
...From the standpoint of the televiewer, pay-as-you-see promises great benefits: better shows and no commercials. Broadway shows and top sporting events now kept off the air because of the promoters' fear of falling gate receipts would be telecast. First-run movies would supplement the antiques now filling the screens; opera and ballet, which seldom come into the living room, could be telecast. Pay-as-you-see could put the Metropolitan Opera on a solid financial basis. And pay-as-you-see, instead of keeping audiences away from such events, might stimulate as much interest in them...